I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Life is short (You need Python)

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.